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For Shamsa Araweelo, it’s not enough to tell her story as an FGM survivor in only general terms.

Women’s rights

A rose to break the silence: Shamsa Araweelo campaigns against FGM

Shamsa Araweelo suffered genital mutilation at age six and then a violently abusive marriage as an adolescent. Today she speaks unsparingly on TikTok about what she experienced and campaigns to protect other girls from sharing her fate.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

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Scottish comedian Richard Gadd (centre) addresses his own experiences of sexualised violence in his miniseries “Baby Reindeer”.

Masculinity

Sexualised violence against men: the Baby Reindeer effect

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by Sonja Peteranderl
Antonia Konarska is currently working as a volunteer in the cafeteria of a retirement home.

Migration to Germany

“Every day I had to force myself to take small steps”

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by Antonia Konarska
Shamsa Araweelo, public speaker, trainer, social activist and expert on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) inthe UK.

Women's rights activists

“We need to move beyond simply talking about FGM”

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by Shamsa Araweelo
Black and white schoolchildren in a school bus in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1973.

Literature

How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?

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by Dagmar Wolf
Christopher Street Day in Mainz in July 2023.

Queer people

Defending the progress made

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by Kerstin Thost
Student protest in Frankfurt in 1969.

Migration

Adapting to fast-changing German society in the 1960s

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by Hans Dembowski
Feminist ideas are often passed from one generation to another through face-to-face conversations.

Novel

Experiencing feminism in Uganda

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by Dagmar Wolf
Svenja Schulze, Germany’s minister for economic cooperation and development, visiting Kandia Camara, Côte d’Ivoire’s foreign minister, in early 2023.

German policy

Germany values respect, reciprocity and alliances

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by Birgit Pickel
Two German cabinet members visiting a Ghanaian NGO school in February: Svenja Schulze (in charge of international development) and Hubertus Heil (responsible for labour and social protection).

German policy

BMZ makes bold statement of intent

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Postgraduates from SLE and from Cameroon and Chad doing project work together.

Young generation

How Generation Z is changing the world of work in development

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